My kind(le) of story – A Game Of Thrones

Since getting a Kindle back in October 2010 I’ve been reading a lot. And a lot of what I have been reading has been fantasy and since a lot of a lot is a lot… I read a lot of fantasy. However according to my friend Jonas there has been one glaring omission in my reading thus far: I have not read George R. R. Martin. The other day I decided to finally rectify this and I am currently half way through A Game Of Thrones.

It’s a long book, at least twice as long as my usual fare and usually I find myself losing interest by this point. Luckily the praise heaped upon A Game Of Thrones is not unwarranted. I cannot argue that AGoT is the most accessible fantasy book ever, it’s size is the first hurdle for anyone approaching it and it throws names of places, people, knights and cities at you with gay abandon.

However it is very well written and plotted and this really carries you through. The book is almost more of a political thriller with swords than it is a more stereotypical Tolkien-esque fantasy novel, and for me that is what makes this worth driving through.